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Breaking Baz: Tributes For International Industry Titan Jenne Casarotto From Kathleen Kennedy, Donna Langley, Barbara Broccoli & Many More
Breaking Baz: Tributes for international industry titan Jenne Casarotto from Kathleen Kennedy, Donna Langley, Barbara Broccoli and many more.
We would bump into each other regularly because of our theatre and film interests, and it was great to track her progress after Stigwood and Douglas Rae Management, but I got to know her better when she struck out on her own, forming the Casarotto Company with husband Giorgio in 1989. As fledgling producers, she took a risk on us and married us up with director Stephen Frears for My Beautiful Laundrette, then David Leland for Personal Services and Wish You Were Here, films that went on to define the era and for which we owe her eternal gratitude. Jenne and Jodi Shields, my agent, formed a great double act and would think out of the box, coming up with left-field solutions about how to get funding, sort out a script, down to what stories were worth telling in the first place – quietly and unshowily making things happen behind the scenes.
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